The Sandiganbayan’s Special Fifth Division has denied the prosecution’s plea to drop former Makati General Services Department Head Ernesto Aspillaga as a respondent so that he can testify against former mayor Elenita Binay.

The prosecution wants Aspillaga to become a state witness against Binay and several others facing graft charges over the alleged anomalous award of a deal to the Office Gallery International, Inc. for the supply of panel fabric partition and connector brackets for the furnishing of the new city hall in 1999.

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